Keywording in ASP 3

[Ludgateman]

Testing of the new ASP3 is going well so far, but one thing I'd like to be able to do that has eluded me in previous versions is how to locate files with NO keywords?
I use catalogues and keywording a lot, and generally apply a generic "To be sorted" keyword at the point of import, but I still occasionally come across files where I've forgotten, so the photo's do not appear in any of my keyword lists.
Has anyone come up with an effective way of filtering a catalogue to show only those files without any keywords attached?

[grubernd]

inside ASP? nope, none that i am aware of.

my personal method is trying to add a minimum amount of keywords and rating the images in one go. so no rating (stars) means no keywords. i wish i'd be as strict as my ideas are simple.

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the more involved workaround is going outside of ASP and using text-search on the xmp files for an empty keywordlist and then finding those images in ASP and so on...

on the commandline in bash (mac, linux, cygwin) i would start out with this:

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grep --recursive --files-with-matches 'bopt:keywordlist=""' --include="*.xmp"

i don't have my windows machine handy, might be that the text-search in the explorer can handle a search for

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bopt:keywordlist=""

in both cases you would still have to match the files from the search to the ones on the catalog, which is no real fun.

when working in the filesystem view you could create a workqueue file from the search and then edit the files in ASP.

but all in all definitely not everyones cup of tea....